<nettime-ann> Call For Hosting MOCO 2018 and 2019

MOCO is the International Workshop on movement and computing. MOCO aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modelling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information. MOCO is positioned within emerging interdisciplinary domains between art & science.
The workshop references the challenge of representing embodied movement knowledge within computational models, yet it also celebrates the inherent _expression_ available within movement as a language. While human movement itself focuses on bodily experience, developing computational models for movement requires abstraction and representation of lived embodied cognition. Selecting appropriate models between movement and its rich personal and cultural meanings remains a challenge in movement interaction research.
Many fields, including Interaction Design, HCI, Education and Machine Learning have been inspired by recent developments within Neuroscience validating the primacy of movement in cognitive development and human intelligence. This has spawned a growing interest in experiential principles of movement awareness and mindfulness, while simultaneously fueling the need for developing computational models that can describe movement intelligence with greater rigour. This conference seeks to explore an equal and richly nuanced epistemological partnership between movement experience and movement cognition and computational representation.
The MOCO conference has been held annually since 2014. It is a medium-size conference with an attendance of 80 in 2014, 100 in 2015, and has traditionally intended to be accessible and affordable both to organisers (in terms of organisation complexity and financial burden) and to participants.

If you are interested in hosting a future MOCO Symposium at your institution, please submit a proposal to moco-share@sfu.ca. The guidelines for submission are available in the following document. The document is intended to provide guidelines to institutions interested in making a bid for the organisation of future editions of the conference.